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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 07:44:15 -0500
From:      "Paul T. Root" <ptroot@uswest.com>
To:        Dave Andersen <angio@shell.aros.net>
Cc:        "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" <compland@ism.com.br>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl v.5
Message-ID:  <316BAD1F.3514@uswest.com>
References:  <199604100832.CAA01311@shell.aros.net>

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Dave Andersen wrote:
> 
> Perl5 is available in both the packages collection and the ports
> collection.  The easiest way to install it is to grab it from the
> packages (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/packages) and do a pkg_add on
> it.  Otherwise, you make it from the ports collection.
> 
>     -Dave Andersen
> 
> Lo and behold, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica once said:
> > Hi:
> >
> >    I'm running FreeBSD 2.1R (from Walnut Creek cdrom). I know that it cames
> > with perl v.5, but when I issue a 'perl -v', I got 'Perl Version 4'. I need
> > to run
> > perl v.5. What can I do ?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Helio.

I'm going to guess that when Helio installed, he had perl v.5 installed
but when he tries to run he gets v.4. The problem is that perl5 is
installed in /usr/local/bin and perl4 is installed in /bin

Paul.

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